Tasman Lake

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Tasman Lake
Location	Mount Cook National Park, South Island
Coordinates	43°41′S 170°10′ECoordinates: 43°41′S 170°10′E
Basin countries	New Zealand
Surface area	1.95 km² (1993)
Max. depth	>100 m
Surface elevation	727 m (1993)

Tasman Lake is located in the Mount Cook National Park on the South Island in New Zealand.^[1] It is famous for being among the only freshwater lakes in the world with icebergs.^[2] The lake itself is a 'turning-back point' on the many hikes in the area surrounding Mount Cook. Like many other geographic places in both New Zealand and Australia, it is named after Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman.

[edit] References

1. ^ Tasman Lake, New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, Place Name Detail, Land Information New Zealand website, retrieved 18 April 2008.
2. ^ Hochstein et al. Downwasting of the Tasman Glacier, South Island, New Zealand: changes in the terminus region between 1971 and 1993

[edit] External links

• Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park (from the New Zealand Department of Conservation)